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Coaching in Government

Mentoring and coaching are both ‘helping’ activities, employed either as distinct interventions or together as part of a package of personal development that enables individuals to achieve their full potential.Mentoring is a process that focuses specifically on providing guidance, direction, and career advice. Coaching's primary emphasis is on maximizing people's potential by working on their perceptions, self-confidence and creative drive.

Like mentoring, coaching programs can be conducted as a standalone program, or part of a training and development program within an organization. Organizations, such as Federal agencies, often run standalone formal coaching programs to enhance the career and personal development of their employees.

Not all coaching relationships are developed through formal programs, and informal coaching programs may prove effective in faciliting coaching relationships for your organization. In short, informal coaching is an ongoing process in which the coaching conversation becomes open-ended. These conversations do not require a specific beginning or end, and may even occur in the everyday workplace. Supervisors may adapt informal coaching as a management style when providing feedback to employees. [1]

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Mentoring and coaching are instrumental to maximize learning and development. The American Management Association’s document Coaching: A Global Study of Successful Practices 1 explains results of a survey of more than 1,000 business leaders around the world on effectiveness of coaching as a means of increasing employees’ individual productivity. These documents can be useful in developing, maintaining and evaluating your mentoring and coaching programs.

Coaching in Government GroupThe Coaching in Government group is entirely committed to the best practice of coaching within the Federal Government. It's objective is to bring together coaching leaders across Federal Agencies to discuss strategic challenges and opportunities related to running a coaching program while, at the same time, attending to broader goals such as collaboration between agencies, innovation in developing leaders, and identifying efficiencies within Government.

National Cancer Institute (NCI)The NCI offers executive and leadership coaching to GS-13's and above. These individuals may participate in the coaching program through self or supervisor referral. GS-13's must have supervisor approval to participate. Coaching is offered by a cadre of internal coaches that have been certified through Sherpa Coaching. For more information, contact the NCI Office of Workforce Management and Development at nciowd-r@mail.nih.gov.

NCI has also offered a comprehensive cohort mentoring program since 2004 for employees at all grade levels. The Knowledge Management program consists of monthly professional development sessions as well as formal mentoring relationships, and gives participants tools for professional growth over the course of one year. Participants build a strong network across the organization as they work with other members of their cohort to share best practices and lessons learned. For more information, contact the NCI Office of Workforce Management and Development at nciowd-r@mail.nih.gov.

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